Sep 3, 2015

Free Book: The Promise-Plan of God

I am not sure how long this offer has been available, but Logos users can download Walt Kaiser's The Promise Plan for God for free. Use this link.

Sep 2, 2015

Free Logos Book for September: Amos by Gary Smith

The free Logos Book for September is Gary V. Smith’s commentary on Amos in the Mentor Commentary series. You can also purchase Joel and Obadiah in the same series for $1.99 and enter to win the entire sixteen-volume Mentor commentary series. Go the Logos' Free Book of Month page here to enter and download your free book today!

Sep 1, 2015

The Unity of the Bible and Expository Preaching

“Perhaps no single factor is more detrimental to Biblical exposition in our day than a widespread failure to recognize that the Bible is a unity and in order to be adequately interpreted must be treated as such. In many circles this unity is lost sight of in a tendency to emphasize the diversity of the content of the Bible.

“In other circles the Old Testament and New Testament are studies apart from one another, with little or no attention paid to their close interrelation. Their theologies are frequently treated separated and in many instances the New Testament is refused its legitimate role as a commentary on the Old Testament. Schools and theological seminaries customarily allocate the Old and New Testament into different departments, a practice doubtless necessary, but fraught with the gravest peril to expository preaching, when the essential unity of the Bible is not kept constantly in mind” (Merrill F. Unger, Principles of Expository Preaching [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1955], 156).
I might add that one of the values of having a Bible Exposition department in a Bible college or seminary is the cross-Testament, cross-disciplinary nature of the department. One reason that I chose Bible Exposition as a discipline was its crossroads-like nature where Old and New Testaments, preaching/teaching, and biblical theology intersect.